If early Homo Sapiens bred with others, and they produced others, then, they were of the same “species”, meaning, they were all of the human species. Never mind calling the Neanderthals or Denisovans or Africans or whatever; they were all of the same species of animals.

I have a book of MORE OR LESS, NO SWEAT cartoons from the Air force. One of them show astronauts being prepared to settle a distant planet populated by strange creatures that look half crab monster. The astronauts laugh and the officer says...”After a few years, she may start looking pretty good!”

>>Given the rate that genes mutate during the course of evolution, Dr. Gokcumen and co-authors calculated that the ancestors of Sub-Saharan Africans interbred with the ghost hominin species as recently as 150,000 years ago, after the two species evolutionary path diverged from each other some 1.5 to 2 million years ago.

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